Walt Whitman Quotes

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman

Wise, Law, Liberty

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman

Sympathy, Whoever, Funeral

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman

Good, Lost, Same

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman

Power, Person, Genius

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman

Teacher, Style, Destroy

Simplicity is the glory of expression.
Walt Whitman

Expression, Simplicity, Glory

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman

Time, Same, Here

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman

Said, Universe, Far

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

Art, Past, Democracy

Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman

Great, Men, Rest

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman

Beautiful, Hair, Graves

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman

Beauty, Themselves, Actions

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Walt Whitman

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman

Great, Greatest, Woman

The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman

War, Real, Books

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman

Single, Whole, Universe

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman

Different, Die, Luckier

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman

Poetry, Great, Poets

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman

Done, Said, Another

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
Walt Whitman

Thoughts, Why, Walk

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman

May, Hero, Young

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Walt Whitman

Find, Fat, Bones

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman

Few, Class, Lands

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman

Feeling, Miracles, Miracle

The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
Walt Whitman

Him, Country, Poet

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 31, 1819

Died: March 26, 1892

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